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Adam there, and kept him 300 years, when he created Howa, a woman, 

 for him, and they were permitted to eat of every thing in heaven, but one 

 sort of fruit. Adam knew Ybleess from the above circumstance, but 

 Howa did not. Ybleess feeling his soul on fire, went and demanded 

 of God, payment or reward for all the prayers and good works which 

 he had performed in his previous life, and God asked him what pay he 

 wanted. Ybleess replied, " I want company in the fire," and God 

 answered, " Go then, and try to make people wicked if you can, but I 

 shall not make people to put them in the fire, for the sake of keeping you 

 company." Ybleess then thanked him, and went to Howa, to whom he 

 said, " All the fruit in heaven is good, but this passes (surpasses) every 

 other, why then do you not eat of it? Howa said, " My husband told 

 me not." Ybleess returned, " Your husband deceives you, God never 

 said so, for it is the best fruit of all, and Adam wants it for another 

 woman." " But there is no other woman." " Yes, there is : but you 

 have been kept ignorant of her existence." Howa then ate tliree fruits, 

 and took two more, which she put under the pillow of the bed, and then 

 charged Adam with the other woman. Adam swore it was false, and 

 Howa replied, " Swear not, but eat of this fruit, and I will believe." He 

 began to eat, and God sent Gabriel to prevent him. Gabriel seized 

 Adam by the throat, to prevent his swallowing it (which made man have 

 what is called Adam's apple). God then told Ybleess, if any one met 

 him they might kill him. God called Adam three times, and said, " For 

 this which you have done, I must create one earthly world for your 

 descendants, for you and they will be unfit for heaven now; and you 

 must descend to this earth, where you will find trouble every day, and 

 even that which you think good will prove to be evil. Go to it then." 

 God then sent him a little book called Chosan, and told him to go and 

 wash, and to wash his heart first, then to pray; and said, " You must die, 

 but after death you shall come to heaven." 



God began to make the world on a Friday, and finished it on the 

 Wednesday ; Thursday he rested. Friday is to be the day of judgment, 

 and when that same Friday comes, it will last 300 years, and there will 

 be rain for ten years, to destroy the world before the judgment. 



